TripAdvisor Reviews Pushkinskaya Hotel Rostov-on-Don

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... the worse place we have stayed, had lovely meal out though with some good wine Life will slow down now though as we have reached The Black Sea Coast which we will follow round the Russian Coast, round the Georgian Coast and into Turkey. We may decided to foray into Georgia at some point and visit Tiblisi ...

... rooms. It has a zoo of sorts in the front yard with deer, foxes, raccoons and a bobcat in cages. Possibly more but we'll be able to tell in the morning when we have light. The hotel doesn't have running water right now but it does have a few nails popping out of the ground and things you'd expect to see in a Russian grandma's house or something. Immersion into Russian life on the first night! What more could you ask ...

... The border crossing was as simple and smooth as the last and that same night we were in Russia once again. Camping the first night, then driving to Chelyabinsk, a nice and almost European city. Next day more driving for 7 hours until we reached a lake for some more camping and fishing. Then again a day of more driving but at the end we found a magnificent camping spot on the banks of the Volga. Because we had been driving for three days and because ...

The train turned out to be quite fun, there are four beds in these second class Sleeper carraiges, no first class on the Vladikavkaz to Rostov train, and none left on the Rostov to Kiev. So my first travelling companion was a Russian lawyer, (advocate it said on his business card - in Russian of course, who spoke some English and we got on very well, he was full of questions about England, why did I not have to carry identity papers like him?, what was the average house price etc. At ...

Made it through the Ukrainian border in pretty good time, then it was the fun one. In my head, I had all sorts of preconceived notions about the Russian border guards. And once we were done with immigration, I thought we were coming through unscathed. Then we had to deal with customs and getting the right declarations for the car. This took way longer than I thought it ...